On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 03:38:33PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
<>
> > Once it is passed upstream the node will no longer be queried (at least from that
> > direction) right? So if you delete a datum after so many requests, it is trivial
>for a
> > specific node to force that data out of the data store. It simply progresses from
>one
> > node to the next, until it is gone completely (i.e. the malicious node is assumed
>to have
> > this upstream copy, when in fact, it has been performing the requests to force the
>data
> > out of store).
> >
> > Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but this would appear to be a major vulnerability.
>
> No, there is no reason why the first node wouldn't continue servicing requests
> for the key. It wouldn't drop out one-by-one up a chain, instead each node in the
> chain would periodically drop and regain it at a different frequency.
No, he has a point. When Node A reaches your threshhold for K and allows
the next search through, then it will most probably not reset the
DataSource on the reply. So it does cause the node to get queried less for
K.
>
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